2012 Photograph, Black and Yellow Argiope, Yellow Garden Spider, Black and Yellow Garden Spider, Golden Garden Spider, Writing Spider, Zigzag Spider, Corn Spider or McKinley Spider (Argiope aurantia, Orb-weaver Spider Family, Araneidae), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2012.

This spider has caught a grasshopper and has almost finished wrapping it in a silk cocoon. You can see silk strands being fed out of the spider's spinneretts.

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